Los viajeros franceses en busca del Perú antiguo (1821-1914)

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El gran historiador inglés, Eric Hobsbawm, en su texto Rebeldes primitivos (1983, p. 264), califica la Violencia en Colombia como “la mayor movilización armada de campesinos (ya sea como guerrilleros, bandoleros o grupos de autodefensa) en la historia reciente del hemisferio occidental, con la posible excepción de determinados períodos de la Revolución mexicana”. A partir de esta consideración, usando la categoría de bandolero social y explotando cientos de documentos del Archivo Germán Guzmán, el libro analiza el bandolerismo en Colombia durante la llamada Violencia tardía,...

La esclavitud ocurrió en civilizaciones tan antiguas como Sumer, así como en casi todas las demás civilizaciones antiguas, incluido el antiguo Egipto, la antigua China, el Imperio acadio, Asiria, Babilonia, Persia, la antigua Grecia, la antigua India, el Imperio Romano, el Califato Árabe Islámico. Y Sultanato, Nubia y las civilizaciones precolombinas de América. La esclavitud antigua representa una mezcla de esclavitud por deudas, castigo por el crimen, esclavitud de prisioneros de guerra, abandono de niños y el nacimiento de niños esclavos a esclavos.